Holocaust Quotes - Page 11

• You know, being Jewish is problematic. Most people really don't know what exactly it means to be a Jew. We belong to a community of suffering, and that's what binds us together. But we are also extremely diverse. That's something I wish people who hate Jews as a group because they think they're so different would understand. We're also completely different within our own group! Essentially, we're just part of a community that has suffered a great deal, and not just in the Holocaust.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

  Edgar Hilsenrath

  Genocide, Armenians, Armenian Genocide

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Self, Practice

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• If you were to do the world championship of victimhood in modern times, then the finals would probably be between Jews and Palestinians. I think the Jews win: we, Isralians, go from the Spanish Inquisition to pogroms to the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion to World War II and the Holocaust - it's a horrible history. And if you look at the Palestinian world, victimized by every entity in the Middle East, they were massacred in every country. I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is this fear of genocide.

  Etgar Keret

  Country, War, Winning

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• In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.

  Ian Mcewan

  Art, Civilization, Would Be

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• Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

  Bernie Sanders

  Careers, Political, Prejudice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

  Alan King

  Way, Jokes, Larry

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• I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.

  Andy Kindler

  Couple, Years, Anxiety

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• WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, School, Invasion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Ocean, Eye

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• When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, College, America

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Rights, People, Atrocities

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• Almost all of the liberal and Christian members of the constitutional commission have withdrawn, because we all fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will pass a document with Islamist undertones that marginalizes the rights of women and religious minorities. Who sits in this group? One person, who wants to ban music, because it's allegedly against Sharia law; another, who denies the Holocaust; another, who openly condemns democracy.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Christian, Religious, Brotherhood

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Do books about the Holocaust make us think, "Oh well, there was nothing we could've done to prevent that or prevent it from happening again"? Of course not. It makes us angry and determined to stop such atrocities.

  James Dashner

  Book, Thinking, Atrocities

  "The Maze Onscreen: Q&A with 'The Maze Runner' Author James Dashner". Interview with Tom Blunt, www.signature-reads.com. September 19, 2014.

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• The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

  Edward Hirsch

  Land, Hopeful, Bottles

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Museums, Isis

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

  Jill Soloway

  Kids, Stories, Narrative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

  Irena Sendler

  Half, World, Forget

  Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk. 2007.

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• The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.

  Roman Vishniac

  People, Saint, World

  "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

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• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  Jill Soloway

  Tattoo, Eight, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.

  Molly Antopol

  Writing, Thinking, Add

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it

  Molly Antopol

  Book, People, Generations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

  Jon Porter

  Home, Community, Population

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